Poetry

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the longest journey were not across the sea, but back to the self? In *The Odyssey*, Homer gives Western literature one of its most enduring stories of wandering, danger, longing, and return. This ancient Greek epic follows Odysseus after the...

A turning of the tide in Ithaca. In these gripping, pivotal books of Homer’s Odyssey, Athena sends Telemachus racing home from Sparta as dark omens gather and the seer Theoclymenus joins his voyage. Back on Ithaca, the loyal swineherd Eumaeus shelters a ragged stranger—Odysseus...

Home at last—but not yet revealed. In Books 17 and 18 of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus reaches Ithaca in a beggar’s rags, tests the hearts of men, and steels himself for justice. He and the loyal swineherd Eumaeus enter the city; the goatherd Melanthius sneers; faithful Argos lifts his head...

Night falls on Ithaca as the stranger in rags prepares for justice. In Book 19, Odysseus and Telemachus spirit away the weapons, Penelope cross-examines the beggar, and faithful Euryclea knows her king by an old scar. In Book 20, sleepless prayers and thunderous omens announce the reckoning...

Two of The Odyssey’s most unforgettable chapters come alive in this gripping performance of Samuel Butler’s lucid prose translation. In Book 11, Odysseus sails to the shadowed shores of Oceanus and summons the dead: he speaks with the seer Teiresias, embraces the shade of his mother Anticlea...

Home at last—but not yet safe. In Samuel Butler’s classic prose rendering, Odysseus (Ulysses) is borne sleeping to Ithaca by the generous Phaeacians, while Poseidon exacts a terrible price. Shrouded in Athena’s mist, he awakens on unknown shores, hides his treasure in the Naiads’ cave...

Enter the dark and haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe in this collection of four unforgettable works of Gothic fiction, psychological terror, and poetic mystery. The audiobook opens with Poe’s celebrated masterpiece, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” in which an ancient family, a decaying...

Sacred Wild: Poems for Your Wild, Sovereign Soul is a collection of poems, transmissions more than verses, written from the fire in our bones, the crown shimmering on our brows, the dragon smoke in our breath. They trace the arc of a woman coming back to her own wildness: exile into belonging...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Milton's sequel to Paradise Lost, published in 1671, takes as its subject not the fall of man but the refusal to fall. Its action is the temptation in the wilderness: Satan, defeated in the earlier poem but undeterred, approaches the Son of God during...

Human civilization has come of age. Today, we enjoy unprecedented comfort and convenience compared to our predecessors a couple of centuries ago. Yet, human relationship, like animals in the wild, has largely remained primordial in nature. Regardless of the narratives and justifications, brutal...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the wake of an explosive thirty-year oil boom, the metropolis of Elbir erupted into concrete and arrogance before it ever learned how to sustain itself. When the wells ran dry and the refineries went silent, the city did not collapse—it stagnated...

This is a Kdrama, fanfiction based novel for K-pop fans. It tells a tale of 7 young men. Jae, Seok-wan, Nan-hoon, Yun-lee, Jun-kim, Ta-Min and Ji-Won. They were on a quest exploring and travelling around world maps, but a hidden Chest they opened, changed their entire lives and turned them into...

From National Poetry Series winner Stephanie Horvath, a haunting, dreamlike odyssey through the American countryside In Field of Vision, we traverse the thresholds of past and future, reality and dream, as we accompany the speaker through deserts, forests, rivers, and coasts. These poems capture...

The beauty of wildflowers is in the blend of their size, shape and color. The beauty of a symphony orchestra is not only the music being played; but the variety of instruments and how the instruments are arranged; and how the conductor blends the variety of instruments into a beautiful score...

More Poetry and Reflection is Roger Neumaier’s second volume of poetry written after his retirement in 2014. Neumaier’s poems track his recognition and acceptance of changes in, and challenges to, his life as well as his growing understanding of the world around him. The book straddles the...

Words Make a Way Through Fire is an intimate, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother's suicide when she was a teenager. It traces her creative journey of recovery and healing, with poetry as a constant companion. The primary means by which Cyra Sweet Dumitru...

We need lights in our lives to continue living and have a good time. Lights can be in the form of contentment, which can be derived from a real love or a happy life. Searching for Lights is a book of poems and short stories that will take you on a journey of discovering different kinds of love...

"This is not bitterness. This is clarity."In Shifting Innerverse, Jayden Phoenix moves through the tremors of life after trauma, threading together poetry, journal entries, and haikus that catch what lingers in the shadows: fractured families, quiet resilience, and the fragments of self stitched...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In this book of poetry, you’ll get a glimpse into the author’s mind and his dreams of a better world. With bloody fingers, he points to the issues he feels are too often ignored and speaks directly to those in power. With a brave voice, he offers...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Trials and Tribulations of Rama’s Reign is a poignant and reflective poetic exploration of the Uttara Kanda—the concluding chapter of the Ramayana, where the divine saga continues beyond victory, revealing the deeper complexities of kingship, duty...

A new collection of poetry from Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, FINALLY! "A modern word witch." —The New York Times Book Review Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems...

THE NAKED PROPHETA solitary figure walks uphill—naked like a pure gentleman—rising beyond cities, religions, memories, and human noise.Part poetry, part meditation, part existential road scripture, The Naked Prophet is a minimalist literary journey through silence, modern civilisation, inner...

War does not always end when the thunder fades. Memory returns in waves; grief finds its way into dreams; faith asks us to keep walking.The Paths Lead Only Forward gathers 54 poems about service, loss, love, nature, and the long passage from conflict toward renewal. Moving from battlefields and...

In his cycle of 15 Hymns on Paradise, St Ephrem the Syrian weaves a profound theological synthesis around the Biblical narrative in Genesis 2 and 3. In this fine Christian poetry, the author expresses his awareness of the sacramental character of the created world, and of the potential of...

On its publication in 1836, The Birthday was widely acclaimed as “the retrospect of a mind’s life” and “the autobiography of the childhood of genius.” Witty and poignant, unsparing in its attacks on injustice and sentimentality, assured and wryly self-mocking, it was an innovative work...